On the one hand, I think it's great that Disney Animation is emphasizing an African-American female lead. On the other hand, the cynical side of me says this is just Disney making more money by selling its Princess Syndrome mentality to a new ethnic demographic of impressionable girls. Sigh.

I'm sick of dragging my mouse over the screen to have some trailer I didn't ask for start to load. Really annoying. In fact, it's not effective advertising at all because I'm now considering NOT seeing any of the films that have these shitty adverts. Oh, nice picture.

Whatever, yeah sure. Princess and the Frog will be neat. I'm glad Disney is going back to 2D traditional animation. But I think Rapunzel has more of my interest now, at least if it's being made they way they said they were doing a few years back.

Yah, you heard me well enough. Black Rich girl falls in love with poor street musician and she wants him but the parents protest. She sells her soul to the evil voodoo priestess who turns her into a frog and in the interim ,the princess has to have sex with a crocodile where they'll reuse footage from All Dogs Go to Heaven,even though its a Bluth film, and then more shit happens.

Dammit. Because when you link to other sites, 9 times out of 10, the site either goes down, pulls the image or is unavailable through most work related net nanny systems. Please Harry, try to limit these "links" stories.

The balcony is more crooked than a dogs hind leg... you'd think they would incorporate a ruler when drawing this stuff up. Or at least a sense of proper perspective... I thought Disney fired all of its 2D animators a couple years ago.

It's a John Lasseter joint. At least, he's got his hand it, final approval, and is dictating the process (numerous story passes to get a tight, movie-worthy story) So, I'm betting it's a better film than anything that's come out of Disney Studio's since the days of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc. Even Bolt might not suck, given Lasseter's input. We'll just have to see about that.

My post from the "Diary of the Dead Trailer" trailer 'exclusive' a few days back -
So how long can Ain't It Cool get away with stealing three-day old empiremagazine.co.uk news? Seriously guys, the Bond casting news, the Deathly Hallows alleged split, and now this, all posted days before on Empire's site. I'll guess you'll post the Princess and the Frog first-look news in a day or so...

Disney should NOT have forgotten who they were (well, they haven't forgotten the part about them being an evil corporation...I'm talking about the good things!) Not that there's much hope for the movie anyway.

"Bruce Willis and Stallone are the only ones who still believe Harry is some sort of underground internet god." - So true! It just goes to show how 'down with the kids' they are.. Honestly, it's frankly embarrassing the way Stallone bends over backwards to get overexposed on this site. Because hey kids, he really enjoys reaching out to the fans! It's not just to cover his back when Rambo tanks!

Thank you for appealing to the masses in their desire for the most boring animation known to man. Thank you for ignoring the cool concept art that you paid for and went rummaging in your vault of formulas. You're so good, Disney, you're so good.

This is the first truly dark skinned "Disney Princess" right?<BR> Poncahontas was...ehhhhh...darkER skinned.<BR>
It'll be interesting to see how this goes overseas, especially in like Asia and stuff...

The image itself is new, but theres been consepts for this for almost a year now, so this is nothing new. <br>
<br> http://www.animationnation.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=012150<br>
<br> http://www.animationnation.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=012881

Disney should just take all the projects they have in the pipe and make ridiculous comedies out of them. Emperor's new groove started out as this serious epic animated movie about the Incas or the Aztecs and look what it became. Either that or make Night on Bald Mountain into a 2 hour movie. That would be fucking terrifying.

Thanks! When I clicked on your talkback message I expected to read something along the lines of, "Here's an idea, don't roll your mouse over the ads!" Weird to actually get advice on how to solve a problem :)